Market-leading equipment makers, specialized software vendors and cloud service providers embed Qosmos in telco and enterprise solutions where real-time Layer 7 intelligence is critical, such as traffic optimization, policy management, quality of experience, analytics, firewalls, cyber defense and more. Qosmos software development kit and probes can be used in all environments – physical, virtualized and in SDN architectures – to accelerate time to market and ensure continuous signature updates.

A pioneer in Network Intelligence based on DPI, Qosmos is the leading independent OEM provider on the market today, serving more than 50 companies worldwide. Based in Paris, Qosmos has offices in Silicon Valley, Singapore and London.

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Qosmos is the leading pure-play OEM vendor of DPI-based Network Intelligence technology. Its software development kit and probes recognize thousands of communication protocols and metadata attributes, creating an information layer that gives the most accurate picture of real-time data activity on networks. Equipment makers, telco and enterprise software vendors and cloud service providers use Qosmos to gain Layer 7 visibility, accelerate time to market and ensure continuous signature updates.

Qosmos product portfolio consists of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and Network Intelligence (NI) technology components. All are designed to be easily embedded into our clients' systems and solutions to enable deep visibility into traffic flows.

As the only pure-play OEM vendor, Qosmos is becoming the de facto DPI standard in the new SDN era, since the industry won't easily accept embedded technologies that are tied to a specific vendor's solution portfolio and development priorities.

Qosmos' flagship product ixEngine is the de facto industry-standard DPI engine in telecoms, cloud and SDN architectures. ixEngine identifies and extracts information traveling over networks in real time, providing a true picture of the traffic by identifying protocols, types of application, and extracting additional information in the form of metadata. Equipment makers, telco and enterprise software vendors and cloud service providers use Qosmos to gain application visibility, accelerate time to market and benefit from continuous signature updates.

Qosmos products are used by development teams at Equipment Manufacturers, Solution Vendors, Systems Integrators and Governments, who benefit from leading-edge technology and fast time to market by leveraging pre-developed, application-agnostic, Deep Packet Inspection and Network Intelligence tools and libraries.

Qosmos enables the development of

Passive / non-intrusive solutions such as network analysis and troubleshooting, network forensics, and subscriber data miningIn-line applications such as packet filtering, traffic shaping or content filtering for policy control in mobile networks, service assurance, and many other solutionsLayer 7 Visibility which is perfectly aligned with SDN to deliver a complete picture of activity flowing through networks.Network virtualization: With Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), DPI will gradually migrate from a being product function to becoming a distributed resource, residing for example in standard vSwitches and servers and available via APIs as a shared function. The migration is further facilitated by the ability of Qosmos technology to run transparently in virtualized environments today.

The white paper explores how operators can use application-level information to offer new and value-added vCPE services. In particular, it addresses how Layer 7 IP classification engines can be incorporated in vCPE deployments to enable key use-cases. While many articles discuss how vCPE technologies can deliver existing services in simpler and cheaper ways, this white paper focuses on opportunities for new services.

This Intel®-Qosmos Application Note explains how Qosmos DPI technology, running on hypervisor-hosted platforms based on Intel® Xeon® processors, allows DPI functions to be performed once and used many times for various services like load balancing, traffic steering and security functions.

This Intel®-Qosmos Application Note explains how Qosmos DPI technology and traffic shaping functions can be added to a virtual switch, allowing a policy and charging rules function (PCRF) to set policy based on a flow's application ID and metadata data. The hypervisor-hosted solution runs on an Intel® Xeon®processor-based platform and bypasses Linux kernel performance bottle necks via the Intel® Data Plane Development Kit (Intel® DPDK).

Qosmos ixEngine is a DPI and metadata extraction software development kit (SDK). It is used by TEMs and Solution Vendors to embed state of the art flow decoding technology into their applications. It can be used in all environments: physical, virtualized and in SDN architectures.

This webinar, presented by Infonetics, Intel and Qosmos, that explores how SDN and NFV are changing network architecture, enabling key functionality like DPI to be widely and economically deployed. It presents use cases for SDN and DPI and their potential benefits.

Qosmos showed a live demo of the world’s first virtual switch with embedded DPI at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013. This was the first demonstration of a virtual switch with the built-in application intelligence required for tomorrow's service-aware networking.